For the first time last week the authoritarian Argentine Government of President Pedro Ramirez faced some active opposition. It came from the group which has traditionally spearheaded popular discontent: the university students.
Three weeks ago, at the Inter-American Students Conference in Santiago, Chile, the Argentine students had repudiated the Ramirez regime, called for a break with Germany. Last week they went on strike against the Government's dismissal of university professors who had signed a Pan-American solidarity manifesto. The movement rapidly spread to all but one of Argentina's six universities, included 80% of...